- kube-state-metrics and cAdvisor/kubelet metrics are collected by default: Starting GKE 1.29.3-gke.1093000 Kube-state-metrics and cAdvisor/Kubelet metrics are on and collected by default. For GKE customers this means they can use kube-prometheus library for dashboards and alerts based on these metrics.
- GKE Enterprise Fleet team access: The Enterprise Fleets feature allow you to group clusters and manage config and access. GKE provides access for pre-defines personas. Depending on what the team needs to do you can grant them IAM access with the proper permissions.
- Google Distributed Cloud Air-Gapped: Air-Gapped is a version of GDC that doesn’t require connectivity to Google Cloud. Which mean all your data (logs, metrics…) remains local and the environment works without needs to connect to a control plane on Google Cloud side. This is meant for use cases under strict data residency requirements.
- Improve workload efficiency using NCCL Fast Socket: NCCL Fast Socket?is a transport layer plugin designed to improve NVIDIA Collective Communication Library (NCCL) which improves multi-GPU and multi-node collective communication primitives that supports NVIDIA GPUs. Requires GKE 1.30.2-gke.1023000 or later
- GKE Autopilot use?Google Virtual NIC (gVNIC): Starting GKE 1.30.2-gke.1023000 and later Autopilot uses Google gVNIC by default which is type of network interfaces that increases network bandwidth for GPU nodes.
- Automatic GPU Drivers installation: When creating a GPU node pass the flag gpu-driver-version and GKE will install the GPU drivers automatically. You can also choose to install them manually.
- Migrate to VM (M2VM): Boring but still useful product feature. Migrate to VM helps you migrate your Virtual Machines from VMware, Azure, AWS or On-Prem to Google Compute Engine in a seamless way. The product got some updates to make the migration easier. Also everything is integrated into the UI and Cli.
- Artifacts Scanning Pricing clarification: At the risk of tooting my own horn I wrote this article to clarify Artifacts Scanning pricing and why you cannot compare it to other self-managed solutions. This was a reply to a post on X (where all great debates start) but a good exercise in critical thinking.
- Jon Seager home setup: Not the kind of content I share usually but I found this minimalistic setup by Jon (VP of engineering at Canonical) very interesting and it gave me some ideas!
- Stackoverflow 2024 Dev Survey is out: 65k people took the survey this year and the results are interesting. Windows is devs most popular OS, Javascript is the top programming language and everyone wants to learn Google Cloud.
